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Preface: A digital start to the day...

(“lst person ethnography”)

Cashless Society

Johannesburg

Convergent Technologies /

Emergent Opportunities?

Art History and the Digital World

Getty Research Institute

June 8-9, 2006

The Getty Research Institute:

Mission Statement

“The Getty Research Institute exists to bring

together all the resources and activities

required to advance the understanding of

the visual arts taken in their widest possible

significance.”-- Tom Crow

Director

Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute

as an optimal “Knowledge Environment”?

• Scholarship

• Publishing

• Programs and Exhibits

• Research Databases and Indexing Resources

• Library

• Special Collections

• Archives

• Digital Research and Development

“Institutions that cannot respond to new knowledge

quickly and flexibly, with new organizational and

administrative configurations, are—at least in the

sciences—trumped in the production of new

discoveries (and Nobel Laureates!) by those that

can…”

Billy E. Frye, “Introduction”, IN The Humanities and The Sciences , American

Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 47, 1999.

http://www.acls.org/op47-3.htm#galison (MAY 31, 2006)

“Scholars who fail to see their fields of inquiry

through the eyes of others not only limit their own

vision; they also run the risk of entering an

intellectual cul de sac, or worse, slipping

unconsciously from the search for understanding into

a defense of dogma and fashion.

“Interaction across the disciplines is one of the

strongest stimulants of creative scholarship…”

Billy E. Frye, “Introduction”, IN The Humanities and The Sciences , American Council of Learned Societies

Occasional Paper No. 47, 1999. http://www.acls.org/op47-3.htm#galison (MAY 31, 2006)

“Finally, any nation that attempts to address the urgent socialproblems of our time solely from a scientific or a

humanistic vantage point will surely fail to find solutionsthat take account of the essential and inescapable

interconnections and inter-dependencies among the differentelements of our natural and social worlds.

“Our failure to make these connections is, I suspect, the source ofmuch of the public's unfortunate image of university faculty asa privileged priesthood pursuing their own esoteric interests at

public expense.”

Billy E. Frye, “Introduction”, IN The Humanities and The Sciences , American Council of Learned Societies

Occasional Paper No. 47, 1999. http://www.acls.org/op47-3.htm#galison (MAY 31, 2006)

August 30, 2002 BiodiversityBiodiversityCommonsCommons // WSSD

Market

Law

Norms

Architecture

(Technology)

Conservation

Knowledge

Resources

“Modalities of Constraint” on Access

Adapted from: Lessig, L. Code and other laws of cyberspace. NY, Basic Books, 1999.

OECD Follow Up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data.Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific,Economic, and Social

Development: Final Report March 2003

FALLING THROUGH THE NET: TOWARD DIGITAL INCLUSION A Report on Americans’ Access to

Technology Tools. U.S. Department of Commerce Economic and Statistics Administration and NationalTelecommunications and Information Administration October 2000

Adoption of new technologies: “S curve”

A Brief Ethical Digression…

Occurrences of the phrase “intellectual property” per

100,000 U.S. Federal Cases

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

1900-

1919

1930-

1939

1950-

1959

1970-

1979

1990-

1999

"Intellectual

Property"/100K Cases

“Professor Hank Greely” Cited in Lessig, L. The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a

connrcted world. NY, Random House, 2001. P. 294.

Reductionists

Current Norms

Expansionists

Maximalists

Intellectual Property Rights

BENEFITS

Differing Interpretations of IPR Regulation

GlovedMOUSE

Testimony of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan

Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the US Congress

Before the Committee on Banking,Housing, and Urban Affairs,U.S. Senate July 16,

2002

“Why did corporate governance checks and balances that served us reasonablywell in the past break down? At root was the rapid enlargement of stockmarket capitalizations in the latter part of the 1990s that arguably

engendered an outsized increase in opportunities foravarice. An infectious greed seemed to grip much of ourbusiness community. Our historical guardians of financial informationwere overwhelmed. Too many corporate executives sought ways to "harvest"some of those stock market gains. As a result, the highly desirable spread ofshareholding and options among business managers perversely createdincentives to artificially inflate reported earnings in order to keep stock priceshigh and rising. This outcome suggests that the options were poorly structured,and, consequently, they failed to properly align the long-term interests ofshareholders and managers, the paradigm so essential for effective corporategovernance. The incentives they created overcame the good judgment of too

many corporate managers. It is not that humans have becomeany more greedy than in generations past. It is that theavenues to express greed had grown so enormously. “

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/hh/2002/july/testimony.htm

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom ofopinion and expression; this rightincludes freedom to hold opinionswithout interference and to seek,receive and impart information andideas through any media and regardlessof frontiers.

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

“The field of knowledge is the common

property of all mankind “

Thomas Jefferson 1807

Digital Objects:Copies, Transformations and Renderings

Digital Objects

Objects

A collection is made up from digital objects. Thereare two kinds of object. Some are surrogates forthe case where the original exists in analog form(ie books or papers). Others are born digital(databases, remote sensed data, GIS layers).

Objects might exist in master or preservation formand as use copies. The latter might be at lowerresolution fitter for many purposes (a 35mm slidemight be mastered as an 18Mb TIFF but served asa derived 15Kb JPEG for instance).

“Digital Objects”?

Digital objects (as potential “public goods”) are:

• non-rivalrous (near-zero cost for additional incrementsof use)

• non-excludable (i.e.of potentially universal benefit)

• universally accessible (potentially)

• But economic inequities and newly emergentlegal/technical barriers may deny these benefits

Reichman, Jerome H. and Paul F. Uhlir, Promoting Public Good Uses of Scientific Data: A

Contractually Reconstructed Commons for Science and Innovation.

<http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/ReichmanandUhlir.pdf>

“Image Families”

From:

Optimal use of digital

objects depends on

“heritability”--

defined in terms of:

•technical integrity (of

image)

•semantic properties

•legal ownership

The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition (A report to the OCLC

Membership) Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 2004. p.45.

TYPES OF USESThat May Be Addressed by Fair Use

Calibration…?

1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1018 bytes

2 Exabytes: Total volume of information generated in 1999.

5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.Exabyte (EB)

1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1015 bytes

1 Petabyte: 3 years of EOS data (2001).

2 Petabytes: All U.S. academic research libraries.

20 Petabytes: Production of hard-disk drives in 1995.

200 Petabytes: All printed material.

Petabyte (PB)

1,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1012 bytes

1 Terabyte: 50000 trees made into paper and printed.

2 Terabytes: An academic research library.

10 Terabytes: The print collections of the U.S. Library of Congress.

400 Terabytes: National Climactic Data Center (NOAA) database.

Terabyte (TB)

1,000,000,000 bytes OR 109 bytes

1 Gigabyte: a pickup truck filled with books.

20 Gigabytes: A good collection of the works of Beethoven.

100 Gigabytes: A library floor of academic journals.

Gigabyte (GB)

1,000,000 bytes OR 106 bytes

1 Megabyte: A small novel OR a 3.5 inch floppy disk.

2 Megabytes: A high-resolution photograph.

5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare.

10 Megabytes: A minute of high-fidelity sound.

100 Megabytes: 1 meter of shelved books.

500 Megabytes: A CD-ROM.

Megabyte (MB)

1,000 bytes OR 103bytes

2 Kilobytes: A Typewritten page.

100 Kilobytes: A low-resolution photograph.Kilobyte (KB)

Table 1.1: How Big is an Exabyte?

UCB SIMS. How much information? 2003 Executive Summaryhttp://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm “Many of these

examples were taken from Roy Williams ?Data Powers of Ten? web page at Caltech.”

Technological Convergence?

• Shortening Developmental Cycles

– Technical?

– Intellectual?

• Hardware

• Software

• Standards

• Networking / Interoperability

• Users -- Globally Diverse – oftenunexpected…

• Knowledge Creation / Publishing

Sharing Knowledge at Macro- and Micro- Levels:

• Investment: Mission / Margin

• Discovery / Creation– Formal

– Explicit but informal (“Gray”?)

– Non-textual

– Latent / Implicit Knowledge?

• Authorship / Compilation– Collaborative Tools

• Editing– Copy-editing

– Metadata / Indexing / Tagging

– Prepress/ Composition / Formatting /“Certification” / Peer Review

• Production– Paper/Print

– Print-on-demand

– “Born Digital”

• Promotion / “Marketing”– “Social Marketing”

• Licensing / DRM – Proprietary Dilemma– Restrictions and Copyright

– Creative Commons / Science Commons

– Public Domain

• Digital Capture– Building In-house Capacity

– Outsourcing – Commercial Vendors

– Develop Scanning Resource Centers• Colorado Digitization Project Model

• NE Doc. Center [Boston]

• Dissemination– Sales – Services/Commodity Model?

– Distribution

– Hosting (Associative Value – ContextSensitive)

• Uses / “Responsible Use”

• Evaluation?– Explicit Review

– Citation / Linking / Imbedding Downloading/ “Impact”

– Application

• Archiving– Individual / Institutional

– Trusted Digital Repositories

– LOCKSS

Outline Schema developed by the Publications Working Group Conservation Commons(IUCN, Gland Switzerland 2005)

Japan. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/44/36134189.pdf

“Content”?

“How much new information per person?”

“According to the Population Reference

Bureau, the world population is 6.3

billion, thus almost 800 MB of recorded

information is produced per person each

year. It would take about 30 feet of books

to store the equivalent of 800 MB of

information on paper.”

UCB SIMS. How much information? 2003 Executive Summaryhttp://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm

“We estimate that the amount of new

information stored on paper, film, magnetic,

and optical media has about doubled in the

last three years.”


Paper

A tree can produce about 80,500 sheets of paper, thus itrequires about 786 million trees to produce the world'sannual paper supply.

The UNESCO Statistical Handbook for 1999 estimates thatpaper production provides 1,510 sheets of paper perinhabitant of the world on average. But paper consumptionis not equal:

Annually each of the inhabitants of North America consumes11,916 sheets of paper (24 reams), and inhabitants of theEuropean Union consume 7,280 sheets of paper (15 reams).

At least half of this paper is used in printers and copiers toproduce office documents.


7.1%6,3616,813Subtotal

4.8%5,9406,230U.S. Mail

50%0.20.3Newsletters

-20%21.6Journals

-73%133.5Mass marketperiodicals

43%390559OfficeDocuments

4%1313.5Newspapers

83%35.5BooksPaper

% Change

Upper Estimates

1999

Upper Estimate

Terabytes/Yr

Upper Estimate

Type of

Content

Storage

Medium

Table 1.4: United States production of printed original content, if stored

digitally in terabytes circa 2002. Upper estimate is scanned; lower

estimate is compressed.

Paper


Film

-2.6%58,209431,69074,202420,254Subtotal

16%17,20017,20020,00020,000X-Rays

N/AN/AN/A2,4902,490Direct to video

N/AN/AN/A14,15514,155TV series

N/AN/AN/A2,5302,531Made for TVfilms

35%94,490126,078Cinema

-9%41,000410,00037,500375,000PhotographsFilm

% Change

Upper

Estimates

1999

Lower

Estimate

1999

Upper

Estimate

Terabytes/Yr

Lower

Estimate

Terabytes

/Yr

Upper

Estimate

Type of

Content

Storage

Medium

Table 1.5: Worldwide production of filmed original content, if stored digitally, in

terabytes circa 2002.


80%2,073,7602,779,7603,416,2304,999,230TOTAL

114%220,000926,000403,0001,986,000Hard Disk

N/AN/AN/A12,00012,000Flash

N/AN/AN/A17,00017,000Audio MD

-79%1,6901,690350350Zip

14%70708080Floppy disc

N/AN/AN/A1,265,0001,265,000MiniDV

0250,000250,000250,000250,000Digital tape

-30%182,000182,000128,800128,800Audiotape

-6%1,420,0001,420,0001,340,0001,340,000VideotapeMagnetic

%

Change

Upper

Estimat

es

1999

Report

Lower

Estimate

1999

Report

Upper

Estimate

Terabytes/

Yr

Lower

Estimate

Terabytes/

Yr

Upper

Estimate

Type of

Content

Storage

Medium

Table 1.6: Worldwide production of magnetic original content, if stored digitally

using standard compression methods, in terabytes circa 2002.


Magnetic Media

28%28.780.750.9102.9Subtotal

99%222243.843.8DVD

57%0.70.71.11.1CD ROM

0658658Audio CDOptical

%

Change

Upper

Estimates

1999

Lower

Estimate

1999

Upper

Estimate

Terabytes/

Yr

Lower

Estimate

Terabytes/

Yr

Upper

Estimate

GenreStorage

Medium

Table 1.7: Worldwide production of optical original content, if stored

digitally using standard compression methods, in terabytes circa 2002.

Optical


13%15.33620.0640.55Subtotal

38%13131818DVD

-45%0.310.060.55CD ROM

0222222Audio CDOptical

%

Change

Upper

Estimate

s

1999

Lower

Estimate

1999

Upper

Estimate

Terabytes/

Yr

Lower

Estimate

Terabytes/

Yr

Upper

Estimate

GenreStorage

Medium

Table 1.8: United States production of optical original content, if stored

digitally using standard compression methods, in terabytes circa 2002.

The U.S. produces 37% of the world’s audio CD titles,

50% of the CD ROM titles, and 40% of the DVD titles.

Optical


Shortening Cycles

of Technical Development

“The Paradigm Shift Rate

is now doubling every decade…”

-- Ray Kurzweil

“Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Two Overlapping Health Revolutions” Ray Kurzweil at The World HealthCare Innovation and Technology Congress November 9, 2005 www.KurzweilAI.net/pps/WorldHealthCongress/

“Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Two Overlapping Health Revolutions” Ray Kurzweil at The World Health

Care Innovation and Technology Congress November 9, 2005 www.KurzweilAI.net/pps/WorldHealthCongress/

“Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Two Overlapping Health Revolutions” Ray Kurzweil at The World Health Care Innovation

and Technology Congress November 9, 2005 www.KurzweilAI.net/pps/WorldHealthCongress/

“Information Technologies

(of all kinds)

double their power

(price performance, capacity,

bandwidth)

every year.”







“Every form of communicationstechnology is doubling

price-performance, bandwidth,capacity every 12 months.”



Measure MIT’s IBM 7094 Notebook Circa 2003

Year

Processor Speed (MIPS)

Main Memory (K Bytes)

Approximate Cost (2003 $)

1967

0.25

144

$11,000,000

2003

1,000

256,000

$2,000

24 Doublings of Price-Performance in 36 years, doublingtime: 18 months not including vastly greater RAM memory,

disk storage, instruction set, etc.



Doubling (or Halving) times

• Dynamic RAM Memory “Half Pitch” Feature Size 5.4 years

• Dynamic RAM Memory (bits per dollar) 1.5 years

• Average Transistor Price 1.6 years

• Microprocessor Cost per Transistor Cycle 1.1 years

• Total Bits Shipped 1.1 years

• Processor Performance in MIPS 1.8 years

• Transistors in Intel Microprocessors 2.0 years

• Microprocessor Clock Speed 2.7 years









A 3D model of the human brain (top)

The dark blue structures are the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex, joined by a major fibretract, the corpus callosum, shown in light blue. The cerebellum is outlined in green, the

thalamus in grey, the hippocampus in pink, and the amygdala in yellow. The system rests atopthe brainstem, pons and medulla, which are shown in red.

© 2005 Malcolm Young, University of Newcastle.

http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/downloads/T2020S_Report.pdf

Hardware













Capture/Scanning/Imaging

https://www.lightningsource.com/index.htm

SoftWare / Metadata / Standards

Open Source Software• Operating Systems• Linux: the most used Unix-like operating system on the planet. Versions have been run on anything from a handheld

computers and regular PCs, to the world's most powerful supercomputers. For a list of popular Linux distributions,look here.

• FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD: The BSDs are all based on the Berkeley Systems Distribution of Unix, developedat the University of California, Berkeley. Another BSD based open source project is Darwin, which is the base ofApple's Mac OS X.

• Internet • Apache, which runs over 50% of the world's web servers.

• BIND, the software that provides the DNS (domain name service) for the entire Internet.

• sendmail, the most important and widely used email transport software on the Internet.

• Mozilla, the open source redesign of the venerable Netscape Browser, is retaking the ground lost by Netscape in the"browser wars". It has quickly moved from 1.0 to 1.2, adding functionality, stability and cross-platform consistencythat is not available from any other browser.

• OpenSSL is the standard for secure communication (strong encryption) over the internet.

• The TCP/IP DNS, SSL, and e-mail servers are especially interesting because they're "category killers"; not only arethey extremely capable and robust, they're so good that no commercial competition has ever been successful atreplacing them as the most widely used product on their respective categories.

• Programming Tools• Perl, Zope, and PHP, are popular engines behind the "live content" on the World Wide Web.

• Powerful High Level Languages like Python, Ruby, and Tcl/Tk owe much of their success and prevalence to theactive community of developers that use them and continue their development.

• The GNU compilers and tools (GCC, Make, Autoconf, and Automake, and others) are arguably the most powerful,flexible, and extensible set of compilers in the world. Almost all open source projects use them as their primarydevelopment tools.

• Developer tools are especially well represented, because without open source programming tools, open sourcesoftware would require proprietary tools to build and maintain it. There are literally hundreds of thousands ofpopular open source packages, covering every imaginable category of software, and more are being developed everysingle day.

http://www.opensource.org/docs/products.php

“The UDDI Technology Stack”

Common Internet Protocols (HTTP, TCP/IP)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Universal Description, Discovery, Integration (UDDI)

Universal Service Interop Protocols

(as yet undefined)

UDDI.org, 10/2000

Proposed Web Services Standards(Info Week 4/2001)

W3C XML

Protocols WG

is working on a

SOAP

standard to be

called “XP”

SOAP 1.1

released and

submitted to

W3C May

’00 in use by

developers

An XML-based

protocol for

messaging and

RPC-style

communication

betwqeen two

processes

DevelopMentor,

Micosoft and

Userland

Feedback on

SOAP spec 0.9

sought Sept.‘00

SOAP:

Simple Object

Access

Protocol

Two more

drafts expected

in ‘02-’03

before

submission to

standards

organizations

Draft

Version in

use by

developers

not yet

sumitted as

standard

A set of XML

protocols and an

infrastrucuture

for the description

and discovery of

busines processes

Ariba, IBM &

Microsoft

Version 1.0

(draft spec.)

Sept., 2000

UDDI:

Unversal

Description,

Discovery &

Integration

Expected

Future

Recent

Status

PurposeOriginStandard

Proposed Web Services Standards(Info Week 4/2001) [cont.]

Expected

Future

Recent

Status

PurposeOriginStandard

W3C

undecided

WSDL spec.

1.0

submitted to

W3C March

‘01

AN XML

language

used to

describe

how to

connect to a

Web

service.

Microsoft &

IBM

Version1.0

Sept. ‘00

WSDL

(Web

Services

Description

Language)

4 years2.5 years1.5 years1 year

Years (month) services have

been live

125,00030,000 manuscripts160 submissions in

2001 (submissions

doubled in the second

half of the year)

2500

# of Submissions processed

x organizations/x

publications

X publishers with x

journals

over x peer-reviewed

journals, dozens of

electronic pre-print

series, and x

institutions and x

journals in the pipeline

X sites running (x

clients)

# of Clients Currently using

software

about 4 (Carden

Jennings Publishing,

about 20 years)

Parent company - over

100 years, CJS 9 years

Founded in 199965

# of Yrs in Business

Manuscript CentralRapid ReviewEdiKitAllenTrack Product Name

http://www.scholarone.

com

http://www.cadmus.co

m

http://www.bepress.co

m

http://www.allenpress.c

om

Web Site URL

ScholarOneCadmus Journal

Services

bePress (Berkely

Electronic Press)

Allen Press

Company Name

C

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I

N

F

O

R

M

A

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#3: Cadmus Journal

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Prio

rityCriteria

Web based Manuscript Submission, Peer Review, and Document Tracking Systems

Software Evaluation Matrix for

Automated Peer Review Options

MetaData ?

Metadata ?Metadata are essential to ensure that objects are locatable and that

they are used appropriately. There are three classes.

• Descriptive (or content) metadata helps to find objects andknow what they are about.

• Administrative (or context) metadata deals with who, what,where, why, and how associated with creation of the object itkeeps track of things like things like file management andpreservation.

• Structural metadata is of a technical kind pertaining to therelationships between or within objects. There is a generalrelationship between the cost of metadata creation and thebenefit to the user.

Metadata Principles ?Metadata Principle 1:

Good metadata should be appropriate to the materials in the collection, users of the collection, andintended, current and likely use of the digital object.

Metadata principle 2:

Good metadata supports interoperability.

Metadata principle 3.

Good metadata uses standard controlled vocabularies to reflect the what, where, when and who ofthe content.


Good metadata includes a clear statement on the conditions and terms of use for the digital object.

Metadata principle 5:

Good metadata records are objects themselves and therefore should have the qualities of goodobjects, including archivability, persistence, unique identification, etc. Good metadata shouldbe authoritative and verifiable.


Good metadata supports the long-term management of objects in collections.

An alternative?

Social Bookmarking

D-Lib MagazineApril 2005

Volume 11 Number 4

ISSN 1082-9873

Social Bookmarking Tools (I)A General Review

Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna ScottNature Publishing Group{t.hammond, t.hannay, b.lund, j.scott}@nature.com

Social Bookmarking:

CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/

Connotea http://www.connotea.org/

del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/doc/about/

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/

Frassle http://frassle.rura.org/

Furl http://www.furl.net/

Simpy http://www.simpy.com/simpy/Splash.do

Spurl.net http://www.spurl.net/

Unalog http://unalog.com/

Networking

Finland

“Structure of the World Wide Web in Finland. Circles denote sites and lines denote connecting links.”

Courtesy of Bernardo Hubernman (HP Labs, Palo Alto)

from B. Huberman The Laws of the Web, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2001

The Web

In 2000 we estimated the volume of information on the publicWeb at 20 to 50 terabytes; in 2003 we measured thevolume of information on the Web at 167 terabytes - atleast triple the amount of information. The surface web isabout 167 terabytes as of Summer 2003; BrightPlanetestimates the deep web to be 400 to 450 times larger, thusbetween 66,800 and 91,850 terabytes.

The median size of HTM/HTML pages was 8 KB, but themean was 605 KB. About 23% included images and 4%contained movies or animations, and about 20% containedJavascript applications.

There are about 2.9 million active weblogs ('blogs'),containing about 81 GB of information.


The Semantic WebA new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will

unleash a revolution of new possibilities

By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila

Overview / Semantic Web

To date, the World Wide Web has developed most rapidly as a medium ofdocuments for people rather than of information that can bemanipulated automatically. By augmenting Web pages with datatargeted at computers and by adding documents solely for computers,we will transform the Web into the Semantic Web.

Computers will find the meaning of semantic data by following hyperlinksto definitions of key terms and rules for reasoning about them logically.The resulting infrastructure will spur the development of automatedWeb services such as highly functional agents.

(article continues below) Ordinary users will compose Semantic Webpages and add new definitions and rules using off-the-shelf softwarethat will assist with semantic markup.

-- Scientific American May 18, 2001

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70

84A9809EC588EF21&pageNumber=1&catID=2









33.35Latin America

182.67Canada and

USA

5.12Middle East

190.91Europe

187.24Asia Pacific

6.31Africa

Table 1.14: World Distribution of

Internet Users (in millions)

Source: Nielsen / NetRatings via CyberAtlas

Digital Divide ???

Around the world about 600 million people have access to the

Internet, about 30% of them in North America.



Estimated Digital HHs in Central Europe

[HBO]

DIGITAL TV Households (000's)

Country 2004 2005 2010

Czech Rep. 90 97 707

Hungary 140 182 988

Poland 1,085 1,268 4,228

Romania 2 68 1,320

Russia 1,091 1,444 8,445

Total 2,408 3,059 15,688

Linda Jensen, CEO HBO Central Europe http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/16/24/36174227.pdf

Source: Informa Telecoms & Media: New Media Markets

On-Line Culture?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

D:\cashless.exe

“Accidental Heroes” ???

“The United States produces about 40% of the world'snew stored information, including 33% of the world'snew printed information, 30% of the world's new filmtitles, 40% of the world's information stored on opticalmedia, and about 50% of the information stored onmagnetic media.

“Hard disks store most new information. Ninety-twopercent of new information is stored on magnetic media,primarily hard disks. Film represents 7% of thetotal, paper 0.01%, and optical media 0.002%. “


Email

About 31 billion emails are sent daily, on the Internet and elsewhere, afigure which is expected to double by 2006 (source: International DataCorporation (IDC). The average email is about 59 kilobytes in size,thus the annual flow of emails worldwide is 667,585 terabytes.

Email ranks second behind the telephone as the largest information flow.Email users include 35% of the total U.S. population (source:eMarketer), and accounts for over 35% of time spent on the Internet(source: Forrester Research).

Sixty percent of workers with email access receive 10 or fewer messageson an average day, 23% receive more than 20, and 6% more than 50.73% of workers spend an hour or less per day on their email.

Only two thirds of email traffic is personal, and spam (defined asunsolicited email) is about one-third of today?s email traffic, which isprojected to increase to 50% four years from now (source: IDC).Therefore we estimate the upper bound of original content in emails as440,606 terabytes (uncompressed), lower bound as 333,792 terabytes.


Instant Messaging

Nearly 40% of U.S. Internet users at home

logged onto one of the instant messaging

(IM) networks at least once in May 2002,

while 31% of U.S. business Internet users

used IM (source: Nielsen/NetRatings).


David Sifry, President, Technorati http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/16/2/36174257.pdf

BLOGS



BLOGS and Main Stream Media






The “Long Tail” ?

“Forget squeezing millions from a fewmegahits at the top of the charts. Thefuture of entertainment is in the millionsof niche markets at the shallow end of thebitstream.”

Chris Anderson Wired -- October 2004

Frieda Brioschi, President, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Italia http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/14/36133622.pdf

Scholarly Communications?

“A core inspiration is that the digital environment allows for(indeed, requires) systemic changes in scholarly communicationprocedures. This potential for fundamental change is related totwo properties of the digital environment that wereunavailable in the paper world:

H. Van de Sompel, “Technical solutions: Certification in a digital era: What functions do we take for granted in

print?”. http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/op4.html

“First, the core functions of our scholarly

communication system can be separated

(at least theoretically) in the digital

environment.”

“Second, we will be able to record in a

machine-readable form, then aggregate,

and later data-mine the collection of

events of this system.”‘

Core Functions

of Scholarly Communication

• “Registration, which allows claims of precedence for ascholarly finding.

• “Certification, which establishes the validity of aregistered scholarly claim.

• “Awareness, which allows participants in the scholarlysystem to remain aware of new claims and findings.

• “Archiving, which preserves the scholarly record overtime.

• “Rewarding, which rewards participants for theirperformance in the communication system based onmetrics derived from that system.

Roosendaal, H., Geurts, P in Cooperative Research Information Systems in Physics (Oldenburg, Germany, 1997).

“The limitations of a paper-based scholarly communication systemhave led to a vertical integration of all the functions into thetraditional journal system. “

“The digital, networked environment allows for the functions ofscholarly communication to be individually implemented bymultiple parties in different ways, and then combined asalternative or companion services in what can effectively beregarded as a network-based value chain.”

[ “Disintermediation” ??? ]

H. Van de Sompel, “Technical solutions: Certification in a digital era: What functions do we take for

granted in print?”. http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/op4.html

“In his pioneering sociological work, Emile Durkheim

emphasized “social facts,” the real, observable behaviors

that should underlie sociological thinking. Knowledge

management has inherited that concern for social facts.

Rather than build from theory, it looks at what people

actually do—the circumstances in which they share

knowledge or do not share it; the ways they use, change,

or ignore what they learn from others. Those social facts

guide (or should guide) the development of knowledge

management tools and techniques.”

L. Prusak, Where did knowledge management come from?, IBM Systems Journal Volume 40, Number 4,2001[ “Knowledge Management”], http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/prusak.html

"As access to information dramatically expands,so that people increasingly have access to

almost all the information they might need atany time and in any place (and, surprisingly, at

low or no cost),

the value of the cognitive skills stillunreplicable by silicon becomes

greater."

L. Prusak, Where did knowledge management come from?, IBM Systems Journal Volume 40, Number 4, 2001[ “Knowledge Management”], http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/prusak.html